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Day 18: Lessons – Controlling a Canon 7D using a Hacked IR Remote and a Transistor

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In this lesson, we investigate electronic switches and look in particular at the NPN Transistor, which we use to hack a cheap IR remote for my Canon 7D to build a quick and easy timelapse photography trigger.